Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is perhaps the most genuine account ever written about life in Nigeria in the twentieth century. Despite the fact that the novel was initially published in 1958, many copies are still sold today. An enormous number of copies have been produced and sold worldwide. The novel has been adjusted for preparations on the stage, on the radio, and on TV. Instructors at every level utilize the novel as reading material in numerous sorts of classes, from history and social studies to writing and human studies. When Things Fall Apart was originally distributed, Achebe declared that one of his intentions was to introduce an unpredictable, dynamic culture to a Western audience who saw African culture as primitive, backward
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Without a doubt, Achebe would challenge such a sentimental depiction of his characters and the people they represent. In fact many Western essayists who wrote on expansionism (counting Joseph Conrad) were against colonialism, however, were sentimental in their depiction of “respectable savages” — primitive and carnal, yet uncorrupted and pure. Achebe sees this thought as an unsatisfactory contention and also a myth. The Igbos were not respectable savages, and in spite of the fact that the Igbo world was in the long run crushed, the indigenous society was never an unspoiled shelter, even before the entry of the white colonialists. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe describes the contrary and, also, constructive components of Igbo society, and he is some of the time as incredulous of his kin as he is of the …show more content…
For example, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson, and tales such as Hegel's The Philosophy of History, which brought forward the idea that no man should try and understand the Negro for they do not speak in the same tongues. Achebe understood that the African story must be precisely spoken to by another African: "… the story we had to tell could not be told for us by anyone else no matter how gifted or well intentioned" (Achebe 25), and he chose to "compose back" to those who would try. Achebe's Things Fall Apart is exceptional not only on account of it being one of the first endeavors of this kind, but since it can conquer each of the troubles that an African writer
Without a doubt, Achebe would challenge such a sentimental depiction of his characters and the people they represent. In fact many Western essayists who wrote on expansionism (counting Joseph Conrad) were against colonialism, however, were sentimental in their depiction of “respectable savages” — primitive and carnal, yet uncorrupted and pure. Achebe sees this thought as an unsatisfactory contention and also a myth. The Igbos were not respectable savages, and in spite of the fact that the Igbo world was in the long run crushed, the indigenous society was never an unspoiled shelter, even before the entry of the white colonialists. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe describes the contrary and, also, constructive components of Igbo society, and he is some of the time as incredulous of his kin as he is of the …show more content…
For example, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson, and tales such as Hegel's The Philosophy of History, which brought forward the idea that no man should try and understand the Negro for they do not speak in the same tongues. Achebe understood that the African story must be precisely spoken to by another African: "… the story we had to tell could not be told for us by anyone else no matter how gifted or well intentioned" (Achebe 25), and he chose to "compose back" to those who would try. Achebe's Things Fall Apart is exceptional not only on account of it being one of the first endeavors of this kind, but since it can conquer each of the troubles that an African writer